News Profile Research In the News Confronting COVID-19 Black History Month #PolicyForward Summer of Social Impact Confronting COVID-19 Policy in Action: Madeline Soskin, MPP Class of 2021, Confronting COVID-19 June 24, 2020 Confronting COVID-19 In the middle of her first year at Harris, as people began to understand the devastating impact the virus would have, Soskin and her friends felt a need to do something. Harris at Home and the Pivot to Digital June 24, 2020 Confronting COVID-19 The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic forced the pivot from in-person to online learning with remarkable speed. Practically overnight, Harris Public Policy students and professors were logging into Zoom from homes all over the world. A Spring Quarter of Community with Harris at Home June 18, 2020 Confronting COVID-19 After the Keller Center emptied out following the conclusion of Winter Quarter, Spring Quarter began at home. Throughout an unprecedented transition to virtual learning necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a sense of community remained. Alumni Shed Light on COVID-19, Inequality, and the Need to Act June 18, 2020 Confronting COVID-19 Harris students and alumni “are energized by a problem,” Marie Trzupek Lynch said in comments echoed by the other panelists. “We want to dig our teeth into it and solve it. Problems for us are opportunities.” Where COVID-19 Testing Lags Community Need in Northeast Illinois May 29, 2020 Confronting COVID-19 A neighborhood in the top 10th percentile for uninsured residents has a test positivity rate that is 78 percent higher than the regional average, but a testing rate that is only 52 percent higher. Harris, Contactless Delivery Bots, and You May 26, 2020 Confronting COVID-19 Nuro, in a span of about two weeks, transformed its road-legal grocery-toting bot “R2” into a contactless transport vehicle for food and medical supplies at the coronavirus treatment facility that California created at Sacramento’s Sleep Train Arena. Pagination Page 1 Next page › Recent News Alumni Profile: Natasia Engeline, MPP’22 Thu., June 08, 2023 Alumni Profile: Noah Fischer, MPP’23 Tue., June 06, 2023 More news Upcoming Events Harris Public Policy Information Session Fri., June 09, 2023 | 8:30 AM Faculty Spotlight: ESG and Impact Investing with Professor Justin Marlowe Mon., June 19, 2023 | 8:00 AM More events